Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Two Crows Sorrow: Love and Death on the North Mountain
$22.95 Add to cartTiny Burlington, tucked away on the slopes of Nova Scotia’s North Mountain. In 1904 it was home to hardworking farmers, complicated family dynamics, passionate lovers, and a murderer.
Laura Churchill D
- Author: Churchill Duke, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1999140540
- Language: English
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Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
$29.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it
Foreword by Anne Murray
They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine
- Author: Cuthbertson, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 144346791X
- Language: English
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St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$34.95 Add to cartThe culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most importan
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0815609132
- Language: English
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the li… [more below]
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610734
- Language: English
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Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land
$22.95 Add to cart“Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered i
- Author: Waiser, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417486
- Language: English
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A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
$28.95 Read more“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”–Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)
“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreadi
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #11
- Author: Milloy, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557899
- Language: English
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Reluctant Pioneer: How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
$24.99 Add to cartIn the 1870s in Ontario’s Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the Uni… [more below]
- Author: Osborne, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1926577167
- Language: English
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Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop
$16.00 Read moreFrom the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children’s Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to no
- Author: Smith, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120334
- Language: English
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Laughing Back at Empire: The Grassroots Activism of the Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
$27.95 Add to cartAsian Canadian activism, resistance, and art of the 1970s and 80s
Laughing Back at Empire is a ground-breaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti- sexist, a
- Series: Human Rights and Social Justice #4
- Author: Wong, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840297
- Language: English
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Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1900, Sudbury was a small town with a population of about 2,000. Now, it is the largest city in northeastern Ontario.
- Author: Wallace, C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 1996
- ISBN10: 1550021702
- Language: English
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Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1942, the west coast of North America was under threat after the attack on Pearl Harbor, prompting the US government to build a military road from Dawson Creek, BC, to Delta Junction, AK. Renowned
- Author: Gontard, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1550177974
- Language: English
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Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality
$29.95 Read moreThe first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life
Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the
- Author: Broadbent, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417389
- Language: English
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Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? the Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr
- Author: Dunning, Norma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 177162339X
- Language: English
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On Cold Iron: A Story of Hubris and the 1907 Quebec Bridge Collapse
$19.99 Add to cartWhen engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high stand… [more below]
- Author: LeVert, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1525562215
- Language: English
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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
$21.95 Add to cartHistory has long ignored many of the earliest female pioneers of the Klondike Gold Rush of North America-the prostitutes and other “disreputable” women who joined the mass pilgrimage to the booming go
- Author: Morgan, Lael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0945397763
- Language: English
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A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridg
$19.95 Add to cart“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous childr… [more below]
- Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation #1
- Author: Fontaine, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0887557856
- Language: English
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The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The “riveting” (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that
- Author: Bacon, John U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666541
- Language: English
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885
$16.95 Read moreIn the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of … [more below]
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 385658419
- Language: English
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The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
$34.00 Read moreINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each- Author: Ibbitson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0771003269
- Language: English
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The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
$19.99 Add to cartThe True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced
- Author: DeFede, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063005980
- Language: English
